i like being random.
unpredictability is something i crave for, and yet routineness is more safe.
i'm currently happily saving up for my astonmartin by eating happy meals everyday.
i think i am suffering from multiple_personality_disorder, cos my dad says i can take his air_force_one anywhere i like but my mum says i have to carry guns for the Taleban.
well, i am going to be a wax figure for Mdm Tussauds next time.
i said
Friday, September 04, 2009
cloudy
My training here in Perth involves a lot of waiting (for the instructor to be free, for the weather to be good etc etc). Yet sometimes, it's a mad rush when there's opportunities to fly. This waiting & rushing reminds me of the army phrase "Rush to wait, wait to rush". More importantly, I related very well to the following article. Hope it will encourage all of us to be sensitive to God's leading and not take matters into our own hands.
"Moving With the Cloud
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman
Thursday, September 03 2009
"Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out." Numbers 9:21b
God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, and they had to pass through the desert on their way to the Promised Land. God was their guide by means of a cloud that appeared overhead. When it moved, they moved. When it stopped, they stopped - sometimes a day, a week, even a year.
Imagine living with the uncertainty of this situation. One day you work at getting your "house" in order, only to have to pick up the stakes and move. Your ability to plan is totally gone. But even greater is the temptation to move when the cloud did not move because you felt it was time to move. For the Israelites, perhaps the grass was no longer green. Perhaps the water was not easily accessible. Perhaps the bugs were a problem. Whatever the case, they were strictly prohibited from moving if the cloud did not move.
It is still the same today. We are not to move unless the Holy Spirit instructs us to do so. We are not to make that business deal on the basis of whether or not it makes sense, but on the leading of the Holy Spirit's "cloud" in our life. It is a difficult process to move only when we are directed, and to remain if we are not. The pressure is always upon us to move, to plan, to act. But if we act, we may move into a place where the presence of God may not be. Hence, the rub. The Christian workplace believer must learn to move when God says move; it is a sign of complete surrender and dependence on God's Spirit to direct our steps.
Ask God today if you are sitting under His cloud. Or, have you moved when He said stand still? He will show you. "
Anyway, I'm finally in Phase 3. Thank God for leading me through all these while. It has taken much longer than I'd hoped, and the process rougher than I'd liked, but it's testimony that I have to rely on God even more. His ways are higher than my ways, and I guess my plans don't always coincide perfectly with God's. Am still walking on.
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